Nancy Yousef

The Aesthetic Commonplace

Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein, and the Language of Every Day

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the notion of the everyday in the work of William Wordsworth, George Eliot, and Ludwig Wittgenstein that explores the interdependence of expressive form and the conceptualization or framing of questions about thinking, feeling, and communicating.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780192856524
• ISBN-10: 0192856529
• Artikelnr.: 66133681

Autorenporträt

Nancy Yousef is Professor of English at Rutgers University. Her scholarship focuses on the intersections between philosophical writing and literary form, and especially on the relationship between aesthetics, ethics, and the representation of emotions. A recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Humanities Center, she is the author of Romantic Intimacy (2013, winner of the Barricelli Prize) and Isolated Cases (2004), as well as essays on Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, and Dickens.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Overlooked and Underfelt: Reading in Earnest
* 1: The General, The Particular, and the Art of the Commonplace
* 2: A Novel Concerning Human Understanding: Middlemarch and the
Philosophical Commonplace
* 3: When we feel the truth of a commonplace": Form and Inflection in
Eliot and Wittgenstein
* 4: The Spirit of the Commonplace, or When does it make sense to use
the word "soul"?
* Coda: On Literature, Philosophy, and Undisciplined Reading